The Book Notes music playlist for the anthology The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing the Lyric Essay

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Hanif Abdurraqib, Andrew Sean Greer, Roxane Gay, and many others. The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing the Lyric Essay is filled with inspiration for both writers and teachers of writing. Ander Monson wrote of the book: “The lyric essay is at heart a freaky space. The lyric essay is resistance to norming forms. The lyric essay is characterized by leaps: through white space, between different registers of meaning, between ledges of one kind of thinking or writing or genre and another. The lyric essay does not hide its stitches or its seams. What it seems is what it is. The lyric essay is disjunctive and refuses to be simplified for your convenience. The lyric essay is unruly and dislikes boxes. Like Super Happy Fun Ball we do not taunt it.…